Pacific Northwest Ballet Presents:
DIRECTOR’S CHOICE
From left: Pacific Northwest Ballet soloist Chalnessa Eames and corps de balletdancers James Moore and Benjamin Griffiths in Paul Gibson’s Sense of Doubt.
© Angela Sterling
Pacific Northwest Ballet is offering an exciting line-up of contemporary works this year with DIRECTOR’S CHOICE.
This year’s DIRECTOR’S CHOICE will include:
Vespers (Choreography: Ulysses Dove, Music: Mikel Rouse)
Vespers was inspired by memories of Ulysses Dove’s grandmother and the small wooden building where she met with other women to worship. Set to a driving percussion score by Mikel Rouse, six women in black dresses assemble and reassemble themselves in and around wooden chairs.
Pacific Northwest Ballet principal dancers Ariana Lallone and OlivierWevers in Ulysses Dove’s Red Angels. Mr. Dove’s Vespers receives
its PNB premiere in the Director’s Choice. © Angela Sterling
Für Alina (Choreography: Edwaard Liang, Music: Arvo Pärt)
Edwaard Liang’s Für Alina is an episodic duet for a man and a woman set to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s spare piano solo of the same name.
Sense of Doubt (Choreography: Paul Gibson, Music: Philip Glass)
Paul Gibson’s Sense of Doubt premiered in 2006 as part of PNB’s Celebrate Seattle Festival. Set to passages from American minimalist composer Philip Glass’s Fourth Symphony, as well as from Glass’s film soundtrack for The Secret Agent, Gibson has choreographed a solo, duet, trio and quartet that suggest suspense and intrigue.
One Flat Thing, reproduced (Choreography: William Forsythe, Music: Thom Willems)
With One Flat Thing, reproduced, PNB adds a third work by William Forsythe to its repertory. One Flat Thing, reproduced is a work for 14 dancers and 20 tables. With great theatrical intensity, the work oscillates between disorder and symmetry, and begins with a bang: twenty tables are dragged onto the stage, becoming the surface and horizon for all ensuing action. Fourteen electric bodies then traverse the space in alternately restrained and explosive fashion. Amid this chaos ordered to perfection, the virtuosity of the dancers is rivaled only by the complexity of the choreography.
I feel excited about this line-up and you probably do too. DIRECTOR’S CHOICE runs March 13-22 at McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer Street. Showtimes are 7:30 pm March 13-15 and March 20-22, with matinees at 2 pm on March 15, and 1 pm on March 16.
Tickets range in price from $20 to $150 and may be purchased at www.pnb.org or by calling the PNB Box Office at (206) 441-2424.
Good news for the youngters as PNB is offering single tickets priced at $15 for patrons 25 and under (two for $25) for the first Friday performance of DIRECTOR’S CHOICE, March 14 at 7:30 pm.
